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BLV YTD return is presented with the assumption of reinvestments of any dividends on ex-date. |
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Compare BLV YTD return (see YTD Return Formula;
YTD Return vs Yield) versus benchmarks: YTD Return on S&P YTD Return on Dow YTD Return on Nasdaq 100 YTD Return on Russell 2000 YTD Return on Gold YTD Return on 10 Year Treasury |
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Also see: BLV Average Annual Return | |||
| About Vanguard Bond Index Funds - Long Term Bond ETF |
| Vanguard Long Term Bond (the Fund) is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted bond index with a long-term dollar-weighted average maturity. The fund is designed to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. Long Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index. It invests at least 80% of assets in bonds held in the index. The fund maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity consistent with that of the index, which generally ranges between 15 and 30 years. As of Dec 31 2013, the Fund's investments portfolio was valued at $5,675,862,000. The BLV YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the BLV YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site, is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year (up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis. Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether BLV YTD return or other benchmarks/peers — and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors by performing the BLV YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns. |
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| Vanguard Bond Index Funds - Long Term Bond ETF (BLV) is categorized under the Financials sector; to help you further research YTD return performance across stocks, below are some other companies in the same sector:
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